S 526 118th Congress Senate Health

BENEFIT Act of 2023

Introduced: February 16, 2023 Introduced by: Wicker, Roger F. Republican · Mississippi See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Feb 16, 2023

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Better Empowerment Now to Enhance Framework and Improve Treatments Act of 2023 or the BENEFIT Act of 2023

This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider relevant patient experience data in the risk-benefit assessment framework used in the process for approving new drugs.

After a new drug application has been approved, the FDA's public statement about how it used patient experience data shall include a description of how such data was considered in the risk-benefit assessment framework.

What's happening now February 16, 2023

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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